Comments on: Dog N Pony http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:20:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: SparklestheIguana http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/comment-page-1/#comment-62913 SparklestheIguana Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:15:53 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/#comment-62913 <p>The problem with this “taking our hand off the bicycle seat” analogy is that the bike rider is now an adolescent and has been trying to learn to ride for 5 years…..if you’re this kid’s parent you just say, “Fuck it, this kid ain’t never gonna learn” and push him down the hill.</p> The problem with this “taking our hand off the bicycle seat” analogy is that the bike rider is now an adolescent and has been trying to learn to ride for 5 years…..if you’re this kid’s parent you just say, “Fuck it, this kid ain’t never gonna learn” and push him down the hill.

]]> By: emptywheel http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/comment-page-1/#comment-62902 emptywheel Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:58:32 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/#comment-62902 <p>Hate to be all serious and everything, particularly with Sparkles standing up for Nelson’s astronaut smile, but I started <a href="http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony-too/" rel="nofollow">a new thread here</a>.</p> Hate to be all serious and everything, particularly with Sparkles standing up for Nelson’s astronaut smile, but I started a new thread here.

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/comment-page-1/#comment-62901 bmaz Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:54:50 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/#comment-62901 <p>Gee, I thought that <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/05/space.love/index.html" rel="nofollow">real live Astonaughts </a>had some special super-duper diapers that allowed superhuman things.</p> Gee, I thought that real live Astonaughts had some special super-duper diapers that allowed superhuman things.

]]> By: SparklestheIguana http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/comment-page-1/#comment-62899 SparklestheIguana Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:50:26 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/#comment-62899 <p>Not sure….maybe he just needs a change of padded undergarments? Where’s Vitter’s diaper bag when you need it….</p> Not sure….maybe he just needs a change of padded undergarments? Where’s Vitter’s diaper bag when you need it….

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/comment-page-1/#comment-62897 bmaz Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:45:48 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/#comment-62897 <p>Is that what causes that Chester the Molester smiles of Nelson’s?</p> Is that what causes that Chester the Molester smiles of Nelson’s?

]]> By: SparklestheIguana http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/comment-page-1/#comment-62896 SparklestheIguana Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:44:25 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/#comment-62896 <p>You forgot Nelson has a smarmy astronaut smile.</p> <p>(And not to be too crude or anything, but he sounds like he’s got something wedged up his booty.)</p> You forgot Nelson has a smarmy astronaut smile.

(And not to be too crude or anything, but he sounds like he’s got something wedged up his booty.)

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/comment-page-1/#comment-62895 bmaz Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:44:15 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/#comment-62895 <p>You see that; others could easily see something else. With excerpts of a cold transcript, or video snippets, the entire Obama time allotment could be played any way you want to frame it, including supporting Crocker and Petraeus. I don’t disagree with your overall take on it in the least; I just wish it had been less open ended and rambling on the questions and permitted answers. More direct, critical and pointed so as to really make a clear case. Like the Biden snippets where he backed them in a corner of no escape.</p> You see that; others could easily see something else. With excerpts of a cold transcript, or video snippets, the entire Obama time allotment could be played any way you want to frame it, including supporting Crocker and Petraeus. I don’t disagree with your overall take on it in the least; I just wish it had been less open ended and rambling on the questions and permitted answers. More direct, critical and pointed so as to really make a clear case. Like the Biden snippets where he backed them in a corner of no escape.

]]> By: randiego http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/comment-page-1/#comment-62894 randiego Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:42:35 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/#comment-62894 <p>I just zipped thru you guys’ commentary in about 5 minutes. I have a big grin on my face and here’s my takeaway:</p> <p>Voinovich is a weeper. Norm Coleman is from Brooklyn. Hagel is running for VP on the Demo ticket. Biden doesn’t like the cheering for Obama, who isn’t running for President today. Diaper Dave hasn’t spoken yet. </p> <p>Oh yeah, and if Orwell was alive we’d kill him again and the term “decelerated escalation” is about to make a comeback.</p> I just zipped thru you guys’ commentary in about 5 minutes. I have a big grin on my face and here’s my takeaway:

Voinovich is a weeper. Norm Coleman is from Brooklyn. Hagel is running for VP on the Demo ticket. Biden doesn’t like the cheering for Obama, who isn’t running for President today. Diaper Dave hasn’t spoken yet.

Oh yeah, and if Orwell was alive we’d kill him again and the term “decelerated escalation” is about to make a comeback.

]]> By: skdadl http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/comment-page-1/#comment-62893 skdadl Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:40:53 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/#comment-62893 <p>Well, I’m a naïve alien, but I was very moved by V’s frustration, and I was glad he did that. </p> <p>I am a lot more uncomfortable with the more sophisticated questions coming from supposedly more liberal senators. However liberal they are, they obviously feel that they have to prove themselves tough on the national-security front, and as a naïve alien, I gotta tell you, that never makes me feel good.</p> <p>I would rather see someone having a good cry, since that’s what I do, and I assume it’s what most other people are doing if they aren’t members of the Bush administration.</p> Well, I’m a naïve alien, but I was very moved by V’s frustration, and I was glad he did that.

I am a lot more uncomfortable with the more sophisticated questions coming from supposedly more liberal senators. However liberal they are, they obviously feel that they have to prove themselves tough on the national-security front, and as a naïve alien, I gotta tell you, that never makes me feel good.

I would rather see someone having a good cry, since that’s what I do, and I assume it’s what most other people are doing if they aren’t members of the Bush administration.

]]> By: SparklestheIguana http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/comment-page-1/#comment-62892 SparklestheIguana Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:40:30 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/04/08/dog-n-pony/#comment-62892 <p>Does anyone know if this is Crocker’s daughter?</p> <p><a href="http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_experts/task,view/id,272/" rel="nofollow">http://www.csis.org/component/.....ew/id,272/</a></p> Does anyone know if this is Crocker’s daughter?

http://www.csis.org/component/…..ew/id,272/

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